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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Military / Weekend Planning, Resistors’ Edition

Weekend Planning, Resistors’ Edition

by Anne Laurie|  March 11, 20115:54 pm| 103 Comments

This post is in: Military, War on Terror aka GSAVE®, Security Theatre

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Not this weekend, but next. From the Courage to Resist website:

Quantico, VA: Rally for Bradley! March 20
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Rally at the Quantico Marine Base in Virginia to support accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning on March 20th! Supporters will gather for a 2pm rally at the town of Triangle (map: intersection of Main St. and Route 1), then march to the gates of the Quantico Marine Corps Base. Bradley has been held at the Quantico brig in solitary-like conditions for six months. We stand for truth, government transparency, and an end to our occupation wars… we stand with Bradley! Event endorsed by the Bradley Manning Support Network, Veterans for Peace, Courage to Resist, CodePink, and many others. Buses from Washington DC have been chartered for this event (departing Union Station at 12:30pm)–reserve your seats today for only $10 RT. The day before, on Saturday, March 19th, in Washington DC, we will be joining the noon rally at Lafayette Park and march on the White House to “Resist the War Machine!”

For the rest of us, here’s a link to Amnesty International’s petition.

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103Comments

  1. 1.

    Mark S.

    March 11, 2011 at 5:57 pm

    Oh, Anne, I’m sure this thread is going to be awesome!

  2. 2.

    burnspbesq

    March 11, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    I am unequivocally in support of the right of the American people to peaceably assemble and exercise their right to free speech. Even when the person on whose behalf those rights are being exercised is a worthless piece of shit like Bradley Manning. Go for it, y’all.

  3. 3.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    Send in the clowns.

    Don’t bother they’re here.

  4. 4.

    Mouse Tolliver

    March 11, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    Guess I know what I’ll be doing next week since this will be happening almost literally right outside my front door. I can see Quantico from my house. The Marice Corps Museum anyway.

  5. 5.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 6:01 pm

    I hope they remember to carry current registration tags.

  6. 6.

    soonergrunt

    March 11, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    I hope they have fun. I hope they get some great press. I hope nobody gets hurt, nor arrested unnecessarily.
    Note–it seems that FYWP is working correctly again.

  7. 7.

    cleek

    March 11, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    “Resist the War Machine!”

    “More Ponies!”

    “Happy Traitor Day!”

  8. 8.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Look, the kid is gonna spend a long time in prison.

    If you really care about him, don’t waste the money on a vanity picnic and send the money instead to his commissary fund.

    Two years from now when he’s completely forgotten, he’ll need that money.

  9. 9.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    Does anyone else have the weird truncated version of BJ on FF? And is there a fix for it? thanks.

  10. 10.

    soonergrunt

    March 11, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    @cleek: You know, sometimes I can’t tell when you’re kidding and when you aren’t.
    That’s either a mark of genius or schizophrenia. Given the creation and maintenance of the pie filter, I go with the former and not the latter.

  11. 11.

    cleek

    March 11, 2011 at 6:11 pm

    @Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder’s Dead):

    Look, the kid is gonna spend a long time in prison.

    if he’s lucky

  12. 12.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    I support anti war demonstrations, I also support speedy trials, but if found guilty, Mr Manning is almost certain to be spending a very long time in similar conditions, though possibly without suicide watch, just like all the others convicted of espionage/ He would not likely survive long in general pop, especially if convicted of lending aid and comfort to the enemy.

    I support the best possible treatment for Mr Manning going into his likely long stay in the brig. I will not be taking any more news from left wing bloggers on his status however.

  13. 13.

    cleek

    March 11, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    @soonergrunt:
    not kidding this time. i got very little sympathy for Manning. yes, i hope the law is followed w/r/t his treatment as a prisoner. but i find his actions to be repulsive. and i’m a bit surprised by the amount of support he’s getting.

  14. 14.

    eemom

    March 11, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    @General Stuck:

    I will not be taking any more news from left wing bloggers on his status however.

    easier said than did.

  15. 15.

    dslak

    March 11, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    Don’t those protestors realize that Glenn Greenwald lives in Brazil?

  16. 16.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 6:18 pm

    @eemom:

    maybe accepting is the better term

  17. 17.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    @cleek:

    i’m a bit surprised by the amount of support he’s getting

    Why would you be surprised? You know jane and glenn have moonie like followers who will act upon any command of their Dear Leader.

  18. 18.

    cathyx

    March 11, 2011 at 6:24 pm

    @dslak: Yes, but Jane Hamsher drove David House there to visit Manning.

  19. 19.

    JPL

    March 11, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    Does the site near more hits? I hope that Manning receives his day in court but there are mixed stories on his treatment.
    OT in Japan (from the BBC)
    #

    2310: More from the Tokyo Electric Power Company: It says the ability to control pressure in some of the reactors at Fukushima-Daini has been lost. Pressure is stable inside the reactors, but rising in the containment vessels, a company spokesman says.

  20. 20.

    JPL

    March 11, 2011 at 6:27 pm

    @cathyx: Ah yes, she was mistreated because she didn’t didn’t have a valid registration.

  21. 21.

    The Dangerman

    March 11, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    Rally at the Quantico Marine Base in Virginia to support accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower…

    Whistle-blower? They are using a phrase that does not mean what they think it means…

    /Inigo Montoya

  22. 22.

    eemom

    March 11, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    @JPL:

    Japan? Who cares about Japan? We got a RALLY to go to.

  23. 23.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 11, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    Everyone can wear underpants elastic around their necks!

  24. 24.

    Roger Moore

    March 11, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    @burnspbesq:
    Even worthless pieces of shit have rights that the government needs to respect. The moment you let the government ignore people’s rights because you think they’re worthless pieces of shit is the moment your own rights aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

  25. 25.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    @The Dangerman: no, he literally blows a whistle.

  26. 26.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 11, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    @Roger Moore: Isn’t that exactly what burns was saying?

  27. 27.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    @eemom: in honor of Japan, they can eat sushi at the picnic.

  28. 28.

    Corner Stone

    March 11, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    @Roger Moore: All accused are worthless pieces of shit to burnspbesq. Unless they’re his client or potential corporate client.
    Then it’s BRAKES ON BITCHEZ! They did absolutely nothing wrong! And you don’t know the law if you say otherwise! Because I’m a lawyer!

  29. 29.

    soonergrunt

    March 11, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Even worthless pieces of shit have rights that the government needs to respect. The moment you let the government ignore people’s rights because you think they’re worthless pieces of shit is the moment your own rights aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

    Agree 100%.

  30. 30.

    AhabTRuler

    March 11, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    @Corner Stone: He’s a lawyer!? I never would have guessed it!

    @Roger Moore:

    Even worthless pieces of shit have rights that the government needs to respect. The moment you let the government ignore people’s rights because you think they’re worthless pieces of shit is the moment your own rights aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

    Especially, when, y’know, they haven’t had a trial or been convicted of anything.

  31. 31.

    Roger Moore

    March 11, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    @FlipYrWhig:
    No. He’s says he thinks we have the right to do what we want, but that we’re foolish for standing up for Manning because he’s a worthless piece of shit. I’m saying it doesn’t matter whether Manning is a saint or a sinner, what the government is doing to him is wrong and shouldn’t be allowed to stand. If we accept the argument that he’s a piece of shit and we shouldn’t care whether he’s treated illegally, everyone’s right to decent treatment is at risk.

  32. 32.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    Godzilla is trending world wide on Twitter

    http://twitter.com/search?#search?q=Godzilla

  33. 33.

    soonergrunt

    March 11, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    @cleek: Well, the Trial Counsel referred the Aiding the Enemy charge as a non-capital charge. The Convening Authority could still decide to charge Manning as a capital charge under that article, but it’s unlikely.
    The non-capital referral only requires a Judge-alone conviction or a 2/3rds guilty verdict from a members panel of 8 to 12 officers/enlisted.
    The capital referral requires firstly a full panel of 12 to return a unanimous guilty verdict, followed by a unanimous death sentence. This will be followed by about 20+ years of appeals and so on, followed by needing the President to actually order the execution.
    For all of those reasons, I don’t think it will be a capital referral. I’ve been wrong before, though.

  34. 34.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 11, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    @Roger Moore: OK, I won’t speak for him, but I think you’re saying two versions of the same thing. You’re saying he may be an asshole but he still has rights; he’s saying he has rights but he’s still an asshole. Whatever.

  35. 35.

    eemom

    March 11, 2011 at 6:58 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    If we accept the argument that he’s a piece of shit and we shouldn’t care whether he’s treated illegally, everyone’s right to decent treatment is at risk.

    That would be bad. Because, you know, the right to decent treatment is so carefully upheld in prisons all over this country as a general rule…..and all you zealous protectors of those rights are so vigilant about holding rallies on behalf of poor unknown schmucks who languish in jails everywhere WITHOUT TRIALS because they can’t afford to post bond…..that we really need to nip the single isolated injustice perpetrated on PFC Manning right in the bud.

  36. 36.

    Jay B.

    March 11, 2011 at 6:58 pm

    From the Courage to Resist website:

    And from the Courage to Submit website, well, just read this comment section.

  37. 37.

    soonergrunt

    March 11, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    @Jay B.: we can haz linky action, pleeeze?

  38. 38.

    Djur

    March 11, 2011 at 7:01 pm

    Maybe once the government’s done with Manning they can double back and finish the job with Daniel Ellsberg and other enemies of the security state.

  39. 39.

    Djur

    March 11, 2011 at 7:05 pm

    @eemom: Personally, I think all this Manning and Wisconsin stuff is a needless distraction from the fact that Diebold is rigging all our elections and what are we going to do with all the nuclear waste and Darfur? Hypocrites! Why hasn’t Obama spoken out on the ethanol scam??

  40. 40.

    cathyx

    March 11, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    @eemom: What an absurd argument to make that because many others who are in jail get treated poorly that we shouldn’t care about Manning’s mistreatment. I can’t believe you are a lawyer with the way you disregard the rule of law.

  41. 41.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 7:22 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpcTkV1tKDs&feature=related

  42. 42.

    Svensker

    March 11, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    Thanks for posting this, AL.

    And cathyx, what you said.

    Good grief.

  43. 43.

    Martin

    March 11, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    @cathyx: I think she’s wondering where the fuck everyone was caring about inmate rights before now.

  44. 44.

    Cacti

    March 11, 2011 at 7:27 pm

    Free Mumia!

  45. 45.

    Djur

    March 11, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    @Martin: A high-profile case generating a lot of specific interest among people who only had a general interest in the issue in the past? Say what?

    Why isn’t every liberal constantly engaged in activism on every issue that liberals care about all the time? What a bunch of hypocrites!

  46. 46.

    cathyx

    March 11, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    @Martin: I know that she is. But it’s still an absurd argument to make.

  47. 47.

    Suck It Up!

    March 11, 2011 at 7:34 pm

    @cathyx:

    hmmmm….I just thought eeom was just pointing out the inconsistencies of who the left chooses to support.

  48. 48.

    cat48

    March 11, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    It’s nice they show their respect for the president by marching on the whitehouse when he’s in South America. :) heh

  49. 49.

    cathyx

    March 11, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    @Suck It Up!: Just like Djur said, if you haven’t engaged in activism on any subject that now gets some limelight, you have no right to speak up about it now. So just shut up and take it.

  50. 50.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    @cathyx:

    You being the arbiter of good argument around here. Same idiot, just like the old idiot.

    Shithead #3

  51. 51.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 7:49 pm

    @cat48:
    hehehehehhehehehhehhehe

    they can’t do anything right, can they…

    hahahahahahhahahahhahaha
    hahahahahhahahahahahahh

    that’s too much

    hehhehehehehehehehheheh

  52. 52.

    Corner Stone

    March 11, 2011 at 7:52 pm

    @soonergrunt:

    we can haz linky action, pleeeze?

    http://www.balloon-juice.com

  53. 53.

    Suck It Up!

    March 11, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    @cathyx:

    ???

  54. 54.

    cathyx

    March 11, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    @General Stuck: When one has no argument to make, call someone a name.

  55. 55.

    Jrod the Cookie Thief

    March 11, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    I’m glad the super-activists of Balloon Juice are laser-focused on the true enemy: readers of FDL and GG.

    Can you imagine the utopia we’d have if they’d only all fuck off and die? Every single problem we face can be traced back to Jane Hamsher, donchaknow.

    Idiots.

  56. 56.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    @cathyx: if you’re saying that people have awaken to this issue because of manning, that’s fine. but then, this awakening would extend to other prisoners, even if only the other prisoners on Manning’s cell block. But no. There hasn’t been any effort outside of manning, even now, under this self professed awaken.

    And you know what, the minute manning’s trial reaches disposition, you’ll won’t care about this issue any further.

    It’s all about manning, it’s only about manning, and no one else. So don’t pretend it’s about an issue, because you insult the other prisoners enduring abuse in the federal, state, county, city, and military systems.

  57. 57.

    Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder's Dead)

    March 11, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief: we can dream, can’t we.

  58. 58.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    @cathyx:

    You mean like shithead numbering. you are getting tedious by the day around here. It is bad enough you morons pedaled GG and FDL swill around here for months that has turned out to be bogus, and you cannot admit that, but keep right on truckin’ misreading peoples comments you don’t like for attack. Go to hell without passing go.

  59. 59.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    Piss off wanker

  60. 60.

    Jrod the Cookie Thief

    March 11, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    @General Stuck: Still working hard to keep the BJ comments section as miserable and pathetic as possible, I see.

    You are truly doing great things for our country. Where would we be without you and Mike Kay around to pretend that Glenn Greenwald is the root of all evil?

    Have you figured out how you’re going to blame GG and Hamsher for the Japanese earthquake and tsunami? Surely they’re to blame somehow.

  61. 61.

    eemom

    March 11, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    Gooooood grief. There are a lot of useful idiots on this blog, aren’t there.

    Hey cathyx — you forgot to sing The Who for us. No Manning thread is complete without that.

  62. 62.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    you got punked, own up to it like a man and quit whining like a sissy stick. I don’t give a fuck about GG or FDL, it is the mountain of smoke shit weasals like you with zero integrity have been blowing up our asses that is the problem. I was going to let all this go, but you motherfuckers will not. And insist on keeping it going.

  63. 63.

    Jrod the Cookie Thief

    March 11, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    @General Stuck: What the fuck are you talking about?

    You morons do realize that I’m not a reader of either FDL or GG, right? I mean, I’ve only said so a few hundred times.

    I’m only pointing out the fucking obvious: THEY ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY, AND YOUR STRAINED EFFORTS TO PRETEND THEY ARE ARE STUPID STUPID STUPID.

    But please, explain to me how I got “punked” by any one of you fuckwits. Be specific.

  64. 64.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    If you didn’t get punked by GG and FDL, then why in fuck are you writing comments like this one defending them,

    I’m glad the super-activists of Balloon Juice are laser-focused on the true enemy: readers of FDL and GG.

    and have been for a long time. In your case it is more like being a miserable little troll coming by now and again to bleat your superiority over what is being discussed here, rarely offering anything other than that. You are nothing more that a low rent Loblaw. He is much better at that kind of preening.

  65. 65.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    THEY ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY, AND YOUR STRAINED EFFORTS TO PRETEND THEY ARE ARE STUPID STUPID STUPID.

    Bullshit is my only enemy, with or without a name attached.

  66. 66.

    gbear

    March 11, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    @Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder’s Dead): The way things are going, they’ll need to microwave the sushi if they want to honor Japan.

  67. 67.

    Jrod the Cookie Thief

    March 11, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    @General Stuck: I’m just pointing out how dipshits like you are doing far, FAR more damage to the left than Jane Hamsher or Glenn Greenwald could ever hope to do.

    It’s just funny to me that you never get this worked up about what the right does. Walker in Wisconsin just destroyed a bunch of unions and Snyder in Michigan is about to implement a corporatist takeover of the cities, but big fucking deal. Some activists are protesting about Manning. Those are the people who truly deserve unbridled bile and hatred!

    If you have a problem with leftist infighting, then stop doing it, jackass.

    @General Stuck: Wow. You really are clueless. No, you obviously hate bullshit, which is why you constantly peddle it. Of course.

  68. 68.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    It’s just funny to me that you never get this worked up about what the right does.

    you are goddamn liar. Everything you said in this comment is a fucking lie. Now go fuck yourself, you stupid sack of lying shit.

    your the type of motherfucker than sets fire to the burn then complains about the smoke and fire. YOU came into this thread with a smart ass insult, YOU jackass

  69. 69.

    eemom

    March 11, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    It’s just funny to me that you never get this worked up about what the right does. Walker in Wisconsin just destroyed a bunch of unions and Snyder in Michigan is about to implement a corporatist takeover of the cities, but big fucking deal.

    Fer fuck’s sake — do you have any idea how stupid that is? Have you not seen the eleventy zillion posts on those topics?

  70. 70.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 8:38 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    And you worthless fuck, I just reread the thread, and you were the first to mention Jane and GG, and the Obots almost all supported the protest and better treatment for Manning.

    And the smartasss shit stirring was near exclusively the firebagger twits infecting this blog.

  71. 71.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    @eemom:

    Goddamn, these miscreants make me mad sometimes.

  72. 72.

    Jrod the Cookie Thief

    March 11, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    Well gee whiz, let’s just pop over to the front-page thread on Michigan and see what Stuck has to say. Surely he’s venting at least as much rage over that as he is over the horrible affront that is people protesting without getting his OK first.

    Lessee, Ctrl-F Stuck…

    Oh, he had nothing at all to say. Guess that’s not much to get worked up about in comparison to protesters who might have read Glenn Greenwald at some point, and are therefore inhuman scum.

    Well, how about that thread concerning the sell-off of Wisconsin’s power plants. Surely that uncontrolled rage will shine through there, right?

    Ctrl-F Stuck…

    One post, in which he calmly makes a snarky comment.

    But, you’re so right. This thread was just chock full of reasoned debate and decorum until I showed up to “start a fire”.

    @eemom: I haven’t seen you, Stuck, or Mike Kay expend even 1/10th of the anger on what Republicans do as I’ve seen about those horrible ol’ firebaggers. What conclusion is a person supposed to draw from that?

  73. 73.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    read my first comment in this thread jackass, and the people that read this blog every day know full well I shoot my mouth likely to a fault on the WI situation, so you are just full of shit.

  74. 74.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    You were the one that brought GG and Jane into this thread. How many times you going to punk yourself today Jackrod?

  75. 75.

    soonergrunt

    March 11, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    @Corner Stone: I wondered how long that would take.

  76. 76.

    Jrod the Cookie Thief

    March 11, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    @General Stuck: Yeah, I know you talk about it. But you’re pretty clearly not remotely as angry about that as you are about the fact that firebaggers exist.

    Whatever. I’m wasting my fucking time. You want to hate on people to your left, and everything else is just window dressing. Just don’t sit there and pretend that attitudes like yours have nothing to do with fracturing the left.

  77. 77.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    You are the one who introduced GG and Jane into this thread. I am laughing my ass off at you fool.

    Case Closed

  78. 78.

    soonergrunt

    March 11, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    @gbear: I don’t like raw fish anyway.

  79. 79.

    Jrod the Cookie Thief

    March 11, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    @General Stuck: Yes, it’d be silly to think your hatred of people protesting Manning’s treatment is in any way connected to your hatred of firebaggers. Obviously I’m in the wrong for thinking there’s a connection.

    Every new thread exists in a vacuum. Your previous statements no longer exist once a new thread is out. There is no such thing as context.

  80. 80.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    LOL – JRod – punked his self to a pulp.

    Well, we know who your worst enemy is, YOU

  81. 81.

    Corner Stone

    March 11, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    @soonergrunt: I thought about it for a bit, but in the end decided I would enjoy posting it. So I went with it.

  82. 82.

    Jrod the Cookie Thief

    March 11, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    @General Stuck: Keep saying that! Repeating bullshit until stupid people believe it works pretty well for the Republicans, so I’m sure it’ll work as well for you.

  83. 83.

    General Stuck

    March 11, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    Would you like a cookie?

  84. 84.

    soonergrunt

    March 11, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    @Corner Stone: sometimes you just gotta take the easy shot.

  85. 85.

    eemom

    March 11, 2011 at 9:26 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    I haven’t seen you, Stuck, or Mike Kay expend even 1/10th of the anger on what Republicans do as I’ve seen about those horrible ol’ firebaggers. What conclusion is a person supposed to draw from that?

    well, there are two possible conclusions. Either (1) you are talking out your ass with 0 evidence, or (2) you spend your life keeping little scorecards of everything each of us says in all the comments on all the threads but are too stupid to do the math correctly.

  86. 86.

    Stillwater

    March 11, 2011 at 9:26 pm

    Poor Stuck. Desperately trying to m maintain order in a comment revolution. (/JSF)

    Ha! That never gets old!

  87. 87.

    cleek

    March 11, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    I’m glad the super-activists of Balloon Juice are laser-focused on the true enemy: readers of FDL and GG.

    classic. PUMA!

  88. 88.

    El Cid

    March 12, 2011 at 5:32 am

    State Department spokesperson is not mature enough in his political outlook.

    The US treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks is “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid“, US state department spokesman PJ Crowley has said.
    __
    Mr Crowley made the remarks about Bradley Manning to an audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    __
    “Nonetheless Bradley Manning is in the right place,” Mr Crowley said.
    __
    Private Manning is being held in solitary confinement at a maximum security US military jail.
    __
    He is shackled at all times and has been on suicide watch at the Quantico marine base in Virginia.
    __
    Mr Crowley was asked whether his comments were on the record and replied, “sure”.
    __
    President Barack Obama was questioned about whether he agreed with Mr Crowley’s comments at a news conference on Friday.
    __
    He responded by saying he had asked the Pentagon directly if the terms of Pte Manning’s confinement were “appropriate” and received assurances that they were.
    __
    Mr Obama added that some aspects of Pte Manning’s treatment “has to do with his safety as well”.
    __
    Mr Crowley could not immediately be reached by the BBC on Friday, but one US report carried a quote from him saying he was speaking in a purely personal capacity, not representing the views of the US government.

    Clearly he hates the troops. Firebagger, PUMA, etc.

  89. 89.

    joe from Lowell

    March 12, 2011 at 11:12 am

    We stand for truth, government transparency, and an end to our occupation wars… we stand with Bradley!

    So, they don’t stand against inhuman prison conditions. They don’t stand for the military following its regulations about pre-trial detention.

    This isn’t a rally against the conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention. This is a rally about how awesome this guy is for violating his oath in order to get back at the eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil United States.

    This statement proves what people have been saying: all of this ginned-up concern about the conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention is just a pretext, a front in the PR war about how awesome Wikileaks is. And when Bradley Manning is forgotten, we aren’t going to hear a word from these people about the abuses of solitary confinement and the inhumane conditions of the 100,000 people being held in it.

    What a bunch of phonies. These people care about “torture” and solitary confinement about as much as Dick Cheney cared about democracy circa 2005. It’s just something they say for PR purposes.

  90. 90.

    joe from Lowell

    March 12, 2011 at 11:22 am

    @Djur:

    A high-profile case generating a lot of specific interest among people who only had a general interest in the issue in the past? Say what?

    The problem is, it isn’t generating interest in the issue of our prison system’s conditions. Take a look at the announcement for the rally again.

    This could have been an opportunity to draw attention to the problem of prison conditions generally, and solitary confinement in particular, but the fanatical firebaggers who’ve latched onto it purposely, deliberately steering the conversation away from that issue. They’d rather pretend that what’s (allegedly) happening to Manning is unique, an expression of the policy of the Obama administration. They’d rather talk about what an awesome hero Bradley Manning is for betraying the military and his country.

  91. 91.

    joe from Lowell

    March 12, 2011 at 11:25 am

    @Mike Kay (Ding-Dong-Broder’s Dead): If cathyx ever writes a single comment about solitary confinement after Bradley Manning is no longer in the news, I will eat a bug.

    (I’m not going to be eating any bugs).

  92. 92.

    Tim

    March 12, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    @Jrod the Cookie Thief:

    I’m glad the super-activists of Balloon Juice are laser-focused on the true enemy: readers of FDL and GG.

    Can you imagine the utopia we’d have if they’d only all fuck off and die? Every single problem we face can be traced back to Jane Hamsher, donchaknow.

    They are obsessed. Any FP post that mentions FDL, GG, or Bradley Manning is immediately swarmed by these freaks, slobbering in their eagerness to shut down any discussion that goes contrary to their narrative that the above mentioned are the worst humans on earth and anyone who supports or even references them must be silenced.

    It is weird, and telling.

    Especially in the case of the foul smelling EETWAT.

  93. 93.

    Tim

    March 12, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    @General Stuck:

    you are goddamn liar. Everything you said in this comment is a fucking lie. Now go fuck yourself, you stupid sack of lying shit.

    wow. What a sad, lonely, angry little thing is the Stuck. Every thread is loaded with its comments; it has no life outside of posting on BJ, and anyone who challenges its positions as outlined here must be utterly destroyed and reviled, because BJ is all the Stuck has.

  94. 94.

    Tim

    March 12, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    @eemom:

    It’s just funny to me that you never get this worked up about what the right does. Walker in Wisconsin just destroyed a bunch of unions and Snyder in Michigan is about to implement a corporatist takeover of the cities, but big fucking deal.

    Fer fuck’s sake—do you have any idea how stupid that is? Have you not seen the eleventy zillion posts on those topics?

    You are dishonest, EeTwat. YOUR number of posts and frothing hate is saved especially for lefties who reference GG, FDL, or BM. You are either not who you claim to be, or you are unbalanced.

  95. 95.

    Tim

    March 12, 2011 at 1:06 pm

    @joe from Lowell:

    They’d rather talk about what an awesome hero Bradley Manning is for betraying the military and his country.

    You would have made a great comrade during the glory years of the USSR. Everything the state and the military does is correct, and anyone who dares oppose it is a traitor.

    BM has a thousand times more courage than you or any of your other cretin FDL/GG-obsessed hater friends here.

  96. 96.

    soonergrunt

    March 12, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    Wow. Timmaaaaay really, really likes his pie. He’s been spamming the hell out of the end of a dead thread about it.
    I like apple and blueberry and strawberry pie, myself, but I don’t have this weird obsession with it.

  97. 97.

    Tim

    March 12, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    SG, it is interesting that YOU are commenting at the end of a thread which you claim to have declared “dead.”

    Your alleged (and very very cute and precious and special) pie filter must not work very well, as you are obviously compelled to reply to a post you allegedly don’t read.

    Anyway…how much did you suck from the military/government pension teet this month?

  98. 98.

    General Stuck

    March 12, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    @Tim:

    There is something seriously wrong with you

  99. 99.

    Canadian Observer

    March 12, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    Joe from Lowell, once (again) justifying Fascism.

    You’d make a great paid commentator for the CCP, joe, telling us how it’s OK Liu Xiabo is in prison because he (gasp!) subverted state power!

    Water-carrying toolbag.

  100. 100.

    Tim

    March 12, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    @General Stuck:

    There is something seriously wrong with you

    and the stuck is still heard from, here in the foul bowels of an allegedly “dead” thread, trying to stifle and insult any opposition to the last breath.

    when was the last time you went more than 12 hours without posting on BJ? Obviously, it is the only life you have. Are you on the government dole like Soonergrunt, sitting in front of your monitor in your jammies, on your wheelchair-scooter stuffing yourself with Doritos again today?

    You come up with some pretty creative snark, but the hatefulness and bile just below and often above the surface spoils any opportunity to appreciate it fully.

  101. 101.

    General Stuck

    March 12, 2011 at 2:28 pm

    @Tim:

    I’m in a good mood today, and not even a pathos like you can ruin it. So I will just say turn off your computer and hi tail it too the nearest psychiatrist and get the help you desperately need.

    So I’m done with this thread

  102. 102.

    Canadian Observer

    March 12, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    People like you and JFL are no better than the “left” Social Democrats in 1914 who voted for the Kaiser’s war credits inthe Reichstag.

    Run a long and be good little Germans.

  103. 103.

    mclaren

    March 12, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    Don’t you mean “resisters”?

    Resistors are what we use in electronic circuits. How many megohms do the WI resistors rate?

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